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"Working on many aspects of my bowling which were never previously brought up" : Mohammad Amir

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It has been an absolute pleasure playing with you guys. You have given me the much needed confidence boost and most importantly allowed me to work on many aspects of my bowling which were never previously brought up.I hope to work harder n represent my country again InshAllah <a href="https://t.co/xfUSSRjXOH">https://t.co/xfUSSRjXOH</a></p>— Mohammad Amir (@iamamirofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/iamamirofficial/status/1053669603652591616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Shots fired at Arthur or perhaps the bowling coach for not being attentive enough.
 
The main issues with Amir has been his run up to the crease, and how close, or not he gets to the wicket. The other issue has been his poor seam position and that inturn negated his ability to swing the ball more often.

All those were brought up beforehand. Unless he's found some other problem(s) than that's his own fault and the blame-game doesn't help his cause.
 
He has been “working on these issues” for years now. Just doesn’t have it in him, that is all.
 
Natch na aayay, angan tera...

Loose Translation of urdu proverb = blaming everyone else except himself
 
i thought this was a positive tweet. An international coach just wont have the time to help you work on some technical deficiencies that you may have picked up. You can only iron those out when you are playing domestic cricket. Perhaps in this case a cake is just a cake?
 
Imagine Abbas and Amir, being in his 2010-form, against South Africa....
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mohammad Amir's bowling figures in the 2nd innings for SSGC versus ZTBL in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy:<br><br>16.3-3-55-5<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QEATrophy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QEATrophy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1054300680670928896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Hope he doesn't get back before the SA series. He should take his time and get some games under the belt before returning. He won't be able to do much on those UAE phatta's anyway.

Good luck Amir. A firing Amir is a great asset to Pakistan.
 
MenInG said:
Natch na aayay, angan tera...

Loose Translation of urdu proverb = blaming everyone else except himself
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I won;t take it as negative comments, he's not blaming anyone, he is being positive accepting his shortcomings and working on them.
 
I hope he isn't soley blaming the coaches for his poor form. He has received a lot of backing and plenty of game time. Heck he played against Zimbabwe B and didn't look like picking up wickets.

Needs to take responsibility for his own performances now.
 
kingusama92 said:
Don't think it was a green wicket in this case (his team made 510-8).

But the opponent's batting lineup looks weak on paper.
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amazing to see how the majority of forum has turned their back on Amir.

In the England tour i thought he looked the best in test since his return and I believe with minor adjustments he will be firing all cylinders in South Africa. I will get him back for the last test match vs NZL so he is test match ready come Centurion.
 
Who should have known about those "aspects" without someone having to tell him.
 
Everything Amir said is right.

Coaches in Pakistan tend to get some god-like treatment from the players. I think some of them might actually be jealous that they were never good players themselves so they don't want to help.
 
Form is temporary but class is permanent.


I'll be happy to dish out humble pies to all you haters once Amir is back to his best. Hope you lot are man enough to show up.
 
Once a champ, always a champ. He will come back with a bang
 
I hope one thing he is taking really seriously is his fitness I will not blame him for losing his bowling rhythm with his ban but he should not be givin a free pass for his atrocious fitness levels when he returned had he kept himself fit It would have allowed him the return to his best much sooner
 
Well if it's a confidence issue then these 5 wickets in the second innings against ZTBL should boost his confidence.

Always difficult to gauge a domestic performance against international performances though.
 
Saj said:
Well if it's a confidence issue then these 5 wickets in the second innings against ZTBL should boost his confidence.

Always difficult to gauge a domestic performance against international performances though.
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When he was first brought back into domestic cricket, he was killing it with 5 wickets in almost every innings during the QEA trophy.

It translated to great performances in NZ, Asia Cup, and World T20. It started going downhill after the England 2016 Test tour where he failed to pick wickets and generate swing on flat wickets with the dropped catches also not helping.

He went from someone looking to attack and take wickets to ensure a steady run-rate via Test Cricket. If the two formats are tampering with his technique then he should give up the red-ball format to concentrate exclusively on white-ball cricket.
 
Don't like to say it, but Amir's days look numbered.
 
ManFan said:
When he was first brought back into domestic cricket, he was killing it with 5 wickets in almost every innings during the QEA trophy.

It translated to great performances in NZ, Asia Cup, and World T20. It started going downhill after the England 2016 Test tour where he failed to pick wickets and generate swing on flat wickets with the dropped catches also not helping.

He went from someone looking to attack and take wickets to ensure a steady run-rate via Test Cricket. If the two formats are tampering with his technique then he should give up the red-ball format to concentrate exclusively on white-ball cricket.
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To be honest, it is a fitness issue with Amir. He cant cope with playing all formats of the game, for him to be complaining about workload at the young age of 26 is revealing. Naturally when the body starts getting tired, all sorts of technical faults develop. Amir has never been a flat conditions bowler, relies on something in the wicket.
 
Savak said:
To be honest, it is a fitness issue with Amir. He cant cope with playing all formats of the game, for him to be complaining about workload at the young age of 26 is revealing. Naturally when the body starts getting tired, all sorts of technical faults develop. Amir has never been a flat conditions bowler, relies on something in the wicket.
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Which is why he should seriously consider to give up Test cricket (which opens up the sport for other LAFB in the country) and can focus on what he has taken pride and precedence in the last few years (white-ball cricket).

Batsmen and bowlers have made the decision to focus on one format so it is not a big deal if Amir gives up Waz's tally of 400 in Test & ODI.
 
the Great Khan said:
i thought this was a positive tweet. An international coach just wont have the time to help you work on some technical deficiencies that you may have picked up. You can only iron those out when you are playing domestic cricket. Perhaps in this case a cake is just a cake?
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I recon Fakhar zaman and azam get all the coaches time.
 
I think he has an issue with stamina and losing heart and giving up quickly.

Which is weird because he ain’t a fatty he’s actually very lean.
 
Amir is our best fast bowler across all the formats, and will come back.

Azhar Mahmood's not helping either.

Need a proper coach for the class of bowlers we have - someone like Waqar, Shane Bond, etc. Else, Abbas will also be ruined.
 
He has had a couple of years of free ride and only like 2/3 performances to show off. He was missing everything which we associated with him ; pace , swing , guile and passion. You wont get a cloud cover everywhere , pakistan play a lot of cricket in UAE and learn to bowl in these conditions if you want to be useful.
 
ManFan said:
Which is why he should seriously consider to give up Test cricket (which opens up the sport for other LAFB in the country) and can focus on what he has taken pride and precedence in the last few years (white-ball cricket).

Batsmen and bowlers have made the decision to focus on one format so it is not a big deal if Amir gives up Waz's tally of 400 in Test & ODI.
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He can retire from test cricket but then he can forget about being a Pakistani legend You don’t go down as a great bowler taking t20 wkts

If Amir has any sense he will work on what he’s doing wrong and come back a better bowler He will continue to play all formats but get his workload managed by cutting back from some useless bilateral jamodis and t20s

His aim should be to get 300 test and odi wickets And anything else will be a waste and a shame
 
its not the job of the head coach or bowling coach of the national team to 'fix' all the issues with a mature bowler... stop blaming Mickey and Azhar!

its good that Amir is is taking the initiative and working on his issues, and not complaining unlike some other cricketers do after being dropped
 
The guy wh origanally coached him, i forget his name, apparently amir had stopped talking to him,

that is the person who should be helping him, if the pcb allow it
 
Where is Amir not accepting his underperformance?

He clearly feels time away from team is giving him a fresh feedback of his bad form nowhere he says he does not deserve to be dropped unlike a Wahab Akmal or Hafeez
 
Misia said:
The guy wh origanally coached him, i forget his name, apparently amir had stopped talking to him,

that is the person who should be helping him, if the pcb allow it
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I believe they are now on speaking terms again.
 
coy0607 said:
its not the job of the head coach or bowling coach of the national team to 'fix' all the issues with a mature bowler... stop blaming Mickey and Azhar!

its good that Amir is is taking the initiative and working on his issues, and not complaining unlike some other cricketers do after being dropped
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What stupidly. What else are they getting paid so lavishly for then?
 
Savak said:
What stupidly. What else are they getting paid so lavishly for then?
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To keep the team disciplined, define strategy and selection, and recommend small tweaks to individual players

It's idiotic to expect the national coach to drop everything else and start working on correcting everything with 1 player.

Should Mickey have done that with Wahab? Rahat? Akmals? It's on the player to go to domestic and make bigger improvements
 
coy0607 said:
To keep the team disciplined, define strategy and selection, and recommend small tweaks to individual players

It's idiotic to expect the national coach to drop everything else and start working on correcting everything with 1 player.

Should Mickey have done that with Wahab? Rahat? Akmals? It's on the player to go to domestic and make bigger improvements
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No.

A bowling coach is there to FIX and look after the flaws of your bowling. Not give discipline lectures and get a free pay check.

Unfortunately, our bowler coach does not seem to be doing that - if you don't know how to swing the ball both ways, you cannnot teach it either.
 
His best bet is to give up Test cricket and concentrate only on LOIs. As far as bowling coach is concerned, he was a poor bowler himself, so don't understand how he can teach someone how to bowl.
 
All he needs to do his attack more. Someone needs to show him how Waqar Younis bowled after he lost express pace.
 
No sign of the video of the 5 wickets in the second innings.

I wonder why not.
 
I've generally supported Amir but this tweet is ill-judged.
 
mak36 said:
Meaning?
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Well it's difficult to gauge the type of dismissals in the 7 wickets without seeing the type of dismissals. I mean they might have been brilliant deliveries or wild slogs by the batsmen - we will never know.
 
Azhar Mahmood unshaken over Amir’s tweet

Pakistan cricket bowling coach, Azhar Mahmood has stated that he would want to see the improvements done on fast bowler Mohammad Amir’s bowling his domestic cricket coach Atiquz Zaman.

“[Atiquz] Zaman is implementing the same plan devised by me,” said Mahmood, talking to private news channel about Mohammad Amir tweet.

“I have seen Amir’s tweet and it makes no difference to me,” he said, while dismissing the notion

Amir has been dropped from the international side for the upcoming ODI series against New Zealand, owing to lackluster showing in the international arena. The fast bowler who is now playing domestic cricket, and is playing for SSGC at Quaid-e-Azam One Day Cup tweeted that he was working on different bowling aspects ‘never brought up’ before.

“It has been an absolute pleasure playing with you guys. You have given me the much needed confidence boost and most importantly allowed me to work on many aspects of my bowling which were never previously brought up,” tweeted Amir.

The coach added that he doesn’t think anyone has supported Mohammad Amir as much as the cricket board has over the past two years.

https://www.brecorder.com/2018/11/05/450646/azhar-mahmood-unshaken-over-amirs-tweet/
 
I think, there was a curfew imposed by PCB on players speaking to media at their comfort, which I think needs to be imposed strictly now including Coaching staffs & PCB employees/"Advisers" as well. That media gag should cover every electronic or print media - recently, JoMou has sealed Pogba's mouth and it's working remarkably well - PP is likely to make EPL team of the month and looks like closer to Juventus's Pogba than MU's one.

I knew Amir crossed the line unnecessarily which won't be taken well, but Azhar shouldn't have called back the memory in public like this. Probably the guy in most discomfort here in Atiq, for absolutely no fault of his own.
 
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